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Old 29-01-08, 05:32 PM
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Originally Posted by alan h View Post
Unless you can get local info to the contrary, you should assume that shops will be shut on Easter Monday - our local bread shop opens, and he sells some 'provisions', but the supermarkets were all closed last Easter Monday when we were there.

Restaurants - some/many will be open, but they may well be heavily booked up by family parties - so unless you can book in advance [difficult from over in the UK], I wouldn't bank on being able to go out for a meal.
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We visited last Easter and while we weren't able to get into the first choice of restaurant we were able to get into one and had a great experiecne - we were the only English people (and only one man spoike English - he came to chat with us which was lovely), lots of big Italian families - our kids were out playing football (well it's an international language) - one of the experiences that made us decide to buy a property in Le Marche.

With the internet (or cheap calls available with VOIP or even without VOIP - it's not that much to phone Italy) you should be able to make reservations from the UK.

Chirs
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